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Sony HDR-SR5
6.0 out of 10

Sony HDR-SR5

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Reviews and Problems with Sony HDR-SR5

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Overall 2
2.0

After A Year and a Half

Sephethus "Nathan", Amazon
5 December 2009
  • Summary: This has to be the most useless camera I have ever spent a ridiculous amount of money for. The primary reason for buying a digital camcorder is so that I can edit them in...
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Overall 1
1.0

"Camera is great - good luck converting to your computer"

Silverfish666, CNET
6 December 2008
  • Pros: Everything I wanted in a camcorder
  • Cons: Everything that I didn't know was required.
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Overall 2
2.0

Stay Away from the camera

C. Kessinger "Fotoguy", Amazon
26 April 2008
  • Summary: I spent a lot of money on this camera and thought it would work well with my VAIO laptop but the other reviews are accurate - Sony has horrible support and you can't do
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Overall 2
2.0

"Don't buy as LCD display is useless outdoors"

rmentzer, CNET
17 March 2008
  • Pros: small and good picture
  • Cons: no view finder and LCD display does useable in bright sun
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Overall 2
2.0

"Well, darn - uninformed buy here also"

funk021, CNET
3 February 2008
Overall 2
2.0

Great picture, but AVCHD format prevents editing

CodeView, Amazon
11 December 2007
  • Summary: The picture quality and features on the camera are great, BUT... Sony shot itself in the foot when it decided to push the AVCHD video format.
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Overall 2
2.0

Do not buy if you want to edit videos!!

Stephen J. Morris "mlbco", Amazon
26 November 2007
  • Summary: Sony HD camera video formats are not supported by any editing software other than Sony Vegas which is NOT included with this camera.
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Overall 2
2.0

Can't download video onto computer and edit with personal software

Brother Lawrence, Amazon
14 October 2007
  • Summary: I recently purchased the camera for school projects and have Avid Liquid Pro as an editing software. When I tried to download the video to edit, it ruined all my other...
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Overall 2
2.0

User Review

canberra_photographer, CNET
9 October 2007
  • Summary: Terrible device, glad I only tried it instore and analised video quality on laptop before possibly wasting cash on it
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